I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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